Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

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Colditz Castle is an immense fortress in eastern Germany, for centuries a place of both refuge and imprisonment for a wide variety of inhabitants. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it's more like having a well-read friend than a subscription to a literary review. There were bars on every window, precipices on almost every side, several layers of sentries, floodlights and barbed wire, and a moat around the outside.

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grie . Much caricatured by the prisoners, not least by Airey Neave, and hated by some for his efficiency as a security officer, this anglophile English teacher turned wartime soldier, who had never been a member of the Nazi party, emerges from Macintyre’s book as a fundamentally decent man.For nearly 100 years, from 1829 to 1924, Colditz was a sanatorium, generally reserved for the wealthy and the nobility of Germany. And as the first few inmates arrived back in Paris and London, they looked at a sort of fairy-tale world that had somehow survived while they had been locked up for years, isolated, bored, fearful, and frustrated. About the Author: Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Agent Sonya, SAS: Rogue Heroes, The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. And then there was the fact that everyone housed there was classed as deutschfeindlich, ‘German-unfriendly’, and had been sent there because they had tried to escape from other camps.

Yet they were never invited to join the escape attempts nor share the goodies that arrived in Red Cross parcels.

Neither will be satisfied if they bother to read the book as they will discover that Ben Macintyre is not an iconoclast as his eloquent defence of his approach in The Times made clear. See our Remarkables Archive for some that are no longer in print, but which we are happy to try to track down. And until August 1942, Oflag-IVC, as Colditz was officially described, was a multinational POW camp of the most deutschfeindlich or German unfriendly POWs. During World War II it became a holding pen for the most incorrigible trouble makers as well as some of the most prominent or well-connected among the Allied prisoners. In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors.



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